I'm getting tired of Google's UI decisions all around and whoever sets these company wide design mandates needs fired quickly before they do even more lasting damage.
Same here. I played around with the settings (extremely limited, typical of Google), but ended up just deleting the widget. I'm using Nova Launcher on a Pixel 6A. Hope it at least fits the default launcher UI better, otherwise it's just terrible.
Unfortunately I can't remove the widget and have to stare at it every time I unlock my phone. The phone is on android 10 so gesture navigation is not supported on 3rd party launchers. Hence using default launcher where I can't remove that atrocity.